“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The writing abilities were always one manifestation of his own strong psychic nature, however, and his growth as a personality required the merging of both if even the writer was to succeed. [...] (Intently.) His improvements are the natural result of a synthesis of personality and abilities and a reorganization of beliefs.

[...] (The Nature of) Personal Reality quite assures your financial situation for some time to come. [...]

(“Does a person know immediately when he dies?”)

(“How long does it take for a person to realize his death, usually?”)

(“How does a person know he is dead at first? [...]

[...] If Ruburt had gone to a doctor, he would have been a different person after a certain point in his life—so in a way it is meaningless to ask what would have happened. Had you insisted that he go to a doctor, you would have been a different person also. [...]

[...] The word “standards” is important, for in certain terms through such “obedience, “ through such compliance, they are given recognizable patterns into which their most personal experience can flow. [...]

[...] If you feel so inclined, see the person. [...]

[...] If you follow your inclinations you cannot go wrong, for they are acutely tuned to each instance and each person, and take into consideration your own circumstances at the time. [...]

[...] [I read these sessions daily.] It’s essential that these conflicting beliefs be resolved by the personality, and I’m determined to do so. [...]

[...] It was allowed to leap beyond the boundaries of painting or writing, to escape even the temporal frames of your present personalities, and to form an original psychic or psychological structure—a new psychological art, if you prefer—that could be contained in none of the arts as they are known. [...]

[...] When necessary, such reactions are meant to show the personality that changes are due. [...]

[...] After supper she’d felt Seth material on his book, the latter, and personal stuff, she said—all before the call from Yale. [...]

[...] Now in matters of personal health, this is bound to add to the uncertainty: you are trying to live your lives according to new rules that are as yet not completely given, so to that extent it is somewhat natural that Ruburt and you become at times uneasy, wonder at times about the personal material, wonder if it is distorted in those areas, or whatever—and there are no known ways to check such material—the material itself is that original. [...]

[...] The person was connected with Robert Monroe’s institute in Charlottesville, Va. [...]

[...] This is not some dry academic undertaking, but a matter of intense personal activities on both of your parts. [...]

[...] I will direct some remarks personally to Ruburt.

[...] Generally speaking, this automatic mechanism that adjusts the whole health structure works very well when the personality is in the dream state.

[...] The personality can indeed refresh itself in such a manner, and often does automatically.

[...] Nor do we know what to make of “someone stubborn,” unless this was a personality trait of one of the people depicted on the stamps. [...]

[...] It involved a peculiar heavy sense of premonition of some kind, as of us personally, or our families, but might be related to John’s family. [...]

[...] May I personally thank our Dr. Instream for his recent letter. [...]

Now there is an emotional rapport, set up of course within some time, that exists between these persons. [...]

[...] I personally appreciate your interest, Dr. Instream, and we shall indeed succeed. [...]

[...] In the beginning we anticipated another intriguing Seth book, the successor to Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality. [...]

I’m sure that that “energy personality essence,” as Seth calls himself, regarded with some amusement our gropings about how best to publish his work as the sessions began to pile up. [...]

[...] After Jane began delivering this work it soon became apparent that my notes for it were going to be longer than they are in Seth Speaks and Personal Reality. [...]

As in Seth Speaks and Personal Reality, the usual notes are presented at break times, but I’ve indicated the points of origin of what would ordinarily be footnotes by using consecutive (superscription) numbers within the text of each session; then I’ve grouped the actual notes at the end of the session for quick reference. [...]

[...] It is impossible for his personality therefore to do anything he feels (underlined) would hurt the one person in the world with whom he feels close.

[...] Such duality cannot exist for long without destroying creative aspects of the personality.

You had made your peace, both of you, at another level, but the two personalities as you know them still had to come to terms in your normal reality. [...]

There are also quite beneficial forces in your personalities that uphold you both, and of which you are unaware.

[...] The person may take great precautions to see that the plane is not missed. Persons may have been contacted to care for the house during the time of absence. [...]

Now: in the most basic manner, each person and creature possesses faith, whatever its degree or nature.

[...] After all of this person’s planning, hard work and effort, at the last moment everything seems to go wrong. [...]

[...] Since I personally have begun working with it, new applications for its use seem to pop up from everywhere—natural enough, I suppose, yet I feel an impetus there as though I’ve finally found something that will be of immense use in daily life. [...]

Ruburt believes he should be a TV personality, a healer, a writer, an excellent psychic versed in all of the most esoteric traditions, a magnetic personality. [...]

These books are more than the work of one personality. [...]

(“How is all of this hooked up with the walking difficulty?” By the question, I meant how has Jane’s walking difficulties through the years resulted from her feeling that she should be all those things Seth recounted at the start of this session—a TV personality, a great psychic, writer, and so forth. [...]

[...] That has to do with his misunderstanding for he has not seen, really, that he is producing work for two personalities that cannot be squeezed into conventional publishing rhythms.

[...] That is, the parents wish to project themselves, you see, but instead are the participators of a new personality.

[...] In such circumstances, the personality does not leave your system, in your terms, for some time, though this is all subjective. [...]

[...] The encouragement of your presence is of psychic benefit to Ruburt, and the exercise in working with the personal subconscious is of help to him also. [...]

[...] Although we wanted dictation to continue we were also interested in learning more about our personal questions. [...]

[...] I want you to understand that, for the reader does not have the benefit of my talking to him personally in this way.

[...] You do what you decided to do anyway — have the session — but by punishing yourself with your own personal interpretation.

Tonight Ruburt was exhausted, in one way, from comparing your joint beliefs with those of your brother’s family; of checking his own body beliefs (Jane touched her knee) with theirs and seeing where his were detrimental — but also from contrasting his personal psychic and creative abilities with theirs, and that exhilarated him. [...]

[...] “If something dies in your head, a cell maybe, something also dies in the outside world: an insect, a person. [...]

[...] They will not be triggered on a personal basis until your own beliefs allow you to perceive the multidimensional layers of your own experience or at least to accept the possibilities.

[...] The affirmation involved is one of transcendence, in which for a time a person affirms his reality in flesh and at the same time states his independence from it (smile) — and realizes that both of these conditions exist simultaneously. [...]

[...] And in that moment you are the future self that “once” spoke encouragingly to the person of the past. [...]

[...] since on the other side so to speak there was an incomprehensible frightening chaotic dimension, malevolent, powers beyond our imagining; and that to question the stories was to threaten survival not just personally but to threaten the fabric and organization of reality as we knew it. [...] which meant more than mere ostracism but the complete isolation of a person from those belief systems, with nothing between him or her and those frightening realities.... [...]

[...] I added that each person is so different from each other person that it’s useless to make judgments, so each person might as well do their thing and let the chips fall. [...]

[...] But the idea is that it is safe to express himself, and that the true purpose of his life is indeed to express those characteristics that compose his personal reality.

[...] but the experience is personal and the experience is subjective and the journey is one that you must make and that you must make alone. [...]

You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. [...]

Realize that there are personalities that you cannot see physically, yet they are there. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality .... [...]

In that regard, each person lives his or her life privately, and yet for all of humanity. Each person tries out new challenges, new circumstances, new achievements from a unique viewpoint, for himself or herself, and for the entire mass of humanity as well.

[...] “In your heart Sayre stands for your childhood,” he said in conclusion, “and to that extent, to you personally, for the childhood of all men. [...]

[...] I have but one more point to make: Each person’s experience of a painful nature is also registered on the part of what we will call the world’s mind. [...]

[...] And it seemed to me that certain parts of her personality were quite ready to continue such behavior until death—the final end, the dissolution in which host and ailments disappeared together, and all conflict was resolved. [...] An understandable-enough resolution, I said, and one I couldn’t argue with basically, since such a course could logically be the one chosen by some personalities—but it was also one that I didn’t choose at this time. [...]

[...] But it’s impossible for one person to save another if they don’t want it that way.” [...]

[...] There is no condition that love cannot provide—and I mean here love of self and so forth, as well as love of another person. [...]

[...] I can point you in the direction—but the experience is personal and the experience is subjective and the journey is one that you must make and that you must make alone. [...]

You must dissociate yourself from the person that you know. [...]

Realize that there are personalities that you cannot see physically, yet they are there. [...]

[...] And yet I will tell you, that as a frivolous female who loved to play with a ball in the bright afternoon and had no chores to perform, seemingly an idle life and seemingly a quite useless personality—I was not burdened with intellect—and yet in that one particular life I learned more about the nature of spontaneity and joy than in many of my ponderous intellectual existences. [...]